Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

Climb the mountain not to plant your flag, but to embrace the challenge, enjoy the air and behold the view. Climb it so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

And read… read all the time… read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.

My wife, the star I steer by.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

That which comes forth, is present and cautions at all times is called ‘Gnan’ (Eternal knowledge). That indeed is the Soul [Our True Self]. The Soul is not separate from the Knowledge.

History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete.

Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog.

In order for American Pie to have worked, you have to have a character who, even while he is humping a pie, the audience still likes

Instead of being afraid of death, we should try to awake to life; and the only death we should escape from is to forget the presence of God into us.

Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything

My job is usually to express emotion as freely as possible.

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.

Community is like a big family.